Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/mow

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *mow (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Chou, 1972)

Noun

 * 1) woman
 * 2) female relative

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:  (B-S),  (ZS) ("mother, female")
 * (in the oracle bone script) 母-oracle.svg
 * Middle Chinese: /məuX/


 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: ,
 * Cantonese:
 * Hakka:
 * Min
 * Min Nan:
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tangut-Qiang
 * Northern Tangut
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Loloish
 * Mpi: ("woman, wife")
 * Loloish
 * Mpi: ("woman, wife")
 * Loloish
 * Mpi: ("woman, wife")
 * Mpi: ("woman, wife")